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Physicist Contributes to Discovery of Two Never-Before-Seen Baryonic Particles

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences is the lead contributor to the discovery of two never-before-seen baryonic particles. The finding, which is the subject of a forthcoming article in Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society, 2014), is expected to have a major impact on the study of quark dynamics.

20 Nov 2014

Gassy Cloud Escapes from Gravitational Pull of Black Hole

Recent research shows that G2 came within 30 billion kilometers of the super-massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, yet managed to escape from the gravitational pull of the black hole.

20 Nov 2014

Leicester Scientists Pay Homage to NASA’s Swift Satellite and X-ray Telescope

The team at the UK Swift Science Data Centre, based at the University of Leicester, pays homage to NASA’s unique space telescope

20 Nov 2014

Gravity May Have Provided the Stability Needed for Early Universe to Survive Expansion

New research by a team of European physicists could explain why the universe did not collapse immediately after the Big Bang.

19 Nov 2014

Comparisons Between Atomic Clocks Confirm Constancy of Fundamental Constant

Atomic clocks prove the stability of the mass ratio of protons to electrons

19 Nov 2014

New Way to Detect Existence of Elusive Dark Matter

For years physicists have been looking for the universe's elusive dark matter, but so far no one has seen any trace of it. Maybe we are looking in the wrong place? Now physicists from University of Southern Denmark propose a new technique to detect dark matter.

19 Nov 2014

Quantum Gravity Studies of the Start of the Universe Cannot Be Avoided

Roger Penrose and Steven Hawking won recognition for their work on spacetime singularities in the sixties, suggesting an initial start to the universe

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 19 Nov 2014

Physicists Engineer Spiral Laser Beam to Create Quantum Whirlpool

Physicists have engineered a spiral laser beam and used it to create a whirlpool of hybrid light-matter particles called polaritons, hybrid particles that have properties of both matter and light and could link electronics with photonics

19 Nov 2014

UW-Madison Physicist Involved in Building the IceCube Wins 2014 American Ingenuity Award

Francis Halzen, the University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist who was the driving force behind the giant neutrino telescope known as IceCube at the South Pole, has been named a winner of the 2014 American Ingenuity Award.

19 Nov 2014

Images from NASA's Dawn Mission Help Create Geologic Maps of Asteroid Vesta

Images from NASA's Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail. These maps are included with a series of 11 scientific papers published this week in a special issue of the journal Icarus.

18 Nov 2014

Global Positioning System May Help Detect and Measure Elusive Dark Matter

The everyday use of a GPS device might be to find your way around town or even navigate a hiking trail, but for two physicists, the Global Positioning System might be a tool in directly detecting and measuring dark matter, so far an elusive but ubiquitous form of matter responsible for the formation of galaxies.

18 Nov 2014

JQI Researchers Create the Best Quantum Receiver

Researchers try to meet the inexorable demands made on the telecommunications grid by improving various components. In October 2014, for instance, scientists at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands did their part by setting a new record for transmission down a single optical fiber: 255 terabits per second.

18 Nov 2014

NASA Releases Map of Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts

A map released today by NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Program reveals that small asteroids frequently enter and disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere with random distribution around the globe. Released to the scientific community, the map visualizes data gathered by U.S. government sensors from 1994 to 2013.

18 Nov 2014

Carnegie Astronomer Honored with Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Carnegie astronomer Mark Phillips, interim director of the Las Campanas Observatory, is one of a group of scientists being honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

18 Nov 2014

Harvard Researchers Named Co-Recipients of $3 Million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Harvard researchers Robert Kirshner, Christopher Stubbs, and Peter Challis have been named co-recipients of the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their role in the 1998 discovery of dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe. This discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe and resulted in a Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.

18 Nov 2014

Quantum Science News

Physicist Contributes to Discovery of Two Never-Before-Seen Baryonic Particles

Gassy Cloud Escapes from Gravitational Pull of Black Hole

Leicester Scientists Pay Homage to NASA’s Swift Satellite and X-ray Telescope

Gravity May Have Provided the Stability Needed for Early Universe to Survive Expansion

Comparisons Between Atomic Clocks Confirm Constancy of Fundamental Constant

New Way to Detect Existence of Elusive Dark Matter

Quantum Gravity Studies of the Start of the Universe Cannot Be Avoided

Physicists Engineer Spiral Laser Beam to Create Quantum Whirlpool

UW-Madison Physicist Involved in Building the IceCube Wins 2014 American Ingenuity Award

Images from NASA's Dawn Mission Help Create Geologic Maps of Asteroid Vesta

Global Positioning System May Help Detect and Measure Elusive Dark Matter

JQI Researchers Create the Best Quantum Receiver

NASA Releases Map of Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts

Carnegie Astronomer Honored with Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Harvard Researchers Named Co-Recipients of $3 Million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

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